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332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: Speech at a Meeting of Stuttgart Industrialists 08 Jan 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
So that in fact economic action, acting together under the influence of negotiation, happens out of knowledge of the subject, not out of parliamentarization, not out of the decision of majorities.
One can have a heart for the workers' issue in the truest sense of the word, but this heart then also tells one that it is necessary above all that social life should flow in such a way that the worker does not undermine the ground under his feet. To do this, however, it is necessary to look at our entire economic, legal, political and intellectual life with a healthier sense than is often the case today.
This depends on the understanding, also on the - how should I put it - generous understanding that our contemporaries show us.
332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: Threefolding as part of the Congress “Cultural prospects of the Anthroposophical Movement” 06 Sep 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
They would take things on board if we presented it to people with an open mind for what is happening and from an open heart, there would be understanding if we put the current, the immediately concrete thing in front of people. What is all the talk of the Stresemanns, the Wirths and so on, compared to what has been said here at this congress?
332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: Address at the Meeting of the “Kommenden Tages” Works Councils 10 Sep 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
At the building site in Dornach, reasonable cooperation was possible because the building could only be constructed through a willingness to make sacrifices. Since 1918, mutual understanding has become very difficult. It is not fantasizing on both sides that leads to understanding, but bridges must be found through loving engagement with one another. We have to come to that. We should understand each other. On both sides, everything is justified, but it is difficult to find an understanding.
It is still the case today that we recognize damage and mistakes, but that it is difficult to overcome some of them due to the existing obstacles, because the necessary understanding is lacking. [Further discussion: about mutual understanding, the demand for a minimum subsistence level, about piecework.]
332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: Address at the Staff Meeting of the “Zentrale” of the “Kommende Tag” 22 Sep 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
We may say that what actually emerged from the underground of the Anthroposophical Movement is, first and foremost, the Waldorf School, founded years ago by Mr.
We must not pass by asleep, otherwise we will be trampled underfoot in world history, no matter how much we want to found. What matters is human judgment. We must be able to understand how to put people in the right place, then the right thing will also happen in social relationships.
This cooperative relationship is there, but such things also bear fruit when they are understood. May it be well understood what can develop from the interaction of two such personalities here at 17 Champignystraße, and therefore let me also say my greeting at last to what fills me with very special joy and satisfaction: the prospect of the cooperative interaction of the two friends!
332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: Memorandum on Futurum and Coming Day for the Attention of Their Directors 01 Nov 1921,

Rudolf Steiner
The essence lies in the interaction of the banking and the entrepreneurial aspects, with the latter working with real assets. Therefore, at the center of each undertaking there cannot be a management that functions as a mere directorate, but one that combines the effectiveness of the individual managers into a whole.
The present system of “affiliation” of enterprises, especially in the case of “Futurum”, places the individual enterprise too far away from the central management. Under such a system, “Futurum” can never flourish. For it is not at all clear on what grounds the individual manager should have an interest in earning money for the “Futurum” company as a whole.
The directors at headquarters must be fully involved in every single undertaking. They must not only be familiar with the financial course of the companies and the conditions of this course, but also with the introduction of the business process itself.
332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: Address and Contributions to the Meeting of the “Kommenden Tages” Works Councils 13 Jan 1922, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
These ideas have actually fallen by the wayside to this day, because, as you will understand, the “Coming Day” cannot be much different from any other undertaking, as capitalist as all other undertakings are.
The organizations, which comprise eight million people, cannot believe that under the present conditions they can achieve anything at all that needs to be achieved; there is no question of that.
When I gave my lectures here at the beginning, the wife of a socialist minister told me that she could not understand why so many people came to my lectures, that I did not promise people anything and only ever told them what they had to do.
332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: Review of the Threefold Period 10 Mar 1922, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
For example, I spoke about the idea of threefolding in the political science association in Kristiania. You couldn't say that people didn't understand anything about it; it was clear from what was said: the professors, both theorists and practitioners, talked about the issues, but it didn't occur to them that something could follow from what they had absorbed that would be more than reading an interesting essay.
332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: Program Limitation of “The Coming Day” 23 Mar 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
In the near future, it will consist of the association of several economic enterprises with spiritual undertakings that support each other. The spiritual undertakings: Waldorf School, Clinical-Therapeutic Institute, Biological and Physical Research Institute, are intended to serve scientific-spiritual and moral-social progress in a way that meets the demands of the present and the near future.
So what is possible in the short term must take precedence over what is necessary. Those personalities who show understanding for the idea of the “Coming Day” will find themselves all the better in it with their interests.
332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: The First Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Futurum AG 23 Mar 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
If things go so far as to cause the resignation of the entire management, you can understand that it is no longer possible for me to conduct the business in the responsible manner that I believe it should be conducted.
I explained to you how difficult, indeed how impossible it would be for me to continue as chairman under the changed circumstances. Now the question is whether I should say that I would resign as chairman if the meeting were to find a way of continuing the Futurum, and from this point of view I ask you to consider the matter.
It is impossible for me to have someone come to me and, as it were, stand between me and the management. That is possible under the one condition that he is right. This is clear, isn't it? Otherwise such a meeting could not have taken place at all within the Futurum management.
332b. Current Social and Economic Issues: On the Crisis in the “Futurum” 02 Apr 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
This would only be possible if a corresponding reorganization of economic life could be undertaken on a larger scale. It was therefore demanded that the company abandon the offensive against the current economic system and initially turn its main focus to the greatest possible economic efficiency.
But the present management of Futurum has begun its activities by taking the most urgent steps to undermine the anthroposophical movement in Switzerland. You can imagine what consequences such a thing must have in the near future. There we have it: this anthroposophical movement is a dangerous movement, it undermines today's economic system; one's own “Futurum” must break away so as not to be in these dangerous waters!

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